Logical Absurdity-- that plan is not logical---- If there is a plan-- its to make HH dull and quiet, thats what the Visiting BKK Thais want.

Actually apart from the bit about motorbike gangs the plan WOULD make HH dull and quiet. A shrine in fact. It has already been noted that the market stalls along the south side temple wall have been cleared. Is it too bizarre to imagine that another temple entrance could be made there?

I was driving up Canal Road todaye going North and a couple of blocks before the traffic lights with the timer, on the right hand side, was a large poster in front of a shophouse saying 'Moon Smile & Platoo opening soon' so I presume it is their new location.

It has already been noted that the market stalls along the south side temple wall have been cleared.

Wow!!! That one passed me by. I don't go that way very often, but I'm down there Thursday, so I'll have to take a look.

They're still there. That intrigued me as well and as I was nearby earlier, I thought I'd go and have a look. I was there just as they were being set up.

The area where the restaurants were is very much work in progress. All remnants of the restaurants have been removed and three guy's present were clearly discussing the next stage. Hopefully, they will quickly improve what is an eyesore, as is, to my eyes. the derelict feel of soi55 and the front between the fishing pier and the Chinese temple. Incidentally, Hua Hin was well and truly empty.

Excuse poor phone pics taken into a bright sun.

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Moonsmile didn't have its own toilet but a couple of the eateries did have, where the waste went I dare to think. There are going to be a lot of disappointed Scandi couples come the high season, they idolised Moonsmile.

Has anything been demolished on Naresdamri since Sangthai next to the fishing pier?

I only visit twice a year for a month at a time, but i find it very sad with the demolitions and beach chair/bed closures etc.

I suppose the powers that be are trying to do a Pattaya by making the front a locals and tourist area with the bars being encouraged to operate the other side of Petchkasem.
All being well I will be here next high season but probably only the once, additionally the pound seems in a perpetual decline.

I only visit twice a year for a month at a time, but i find it very sad with the demolitions and beach chair/bed closures etc.

I suppose the powers that be are trying to do a Pattaya by making the front a locals and tourist area with the bars being encouraged to operate the other side of Petchkasem.
All being well I will be here next high season but probably only the once, additionally the pound seems in a perpetual decline.

You are quite right gus. The Powers That Be have been trying to get the bar areas further back for many years now - just like Pattaya. But to me there is one big difference in that the Pattaya beach front developments were fairly new and often temporary shacks compared to HH, where some long established families owned beach front property, and capitalised on it when the farang invasion began and flashed their cash.

Much of the Pattaya beach road was built on the back of the GI influx. HuaHin beach front housed a very old fishing community with maybe elderly owners who were ready to sell up and move.

Regards the front, there are some very old houses there (by Thai standards), both on the beach front and opposite, some well over 75 years old and lived in by the same families now as then. My other half got talking with one of them and he explained what was happening in some of the pics the families have put up for display in that area.

The guy with the orange shirt in the above pics was wandering around the cleared area, I wasn't sure if he was part of the group of three or was just scavenging for anything left behind! I had other shots of a similar nature, which show him checking the wall and ground.

Regarding the houses on the front, I've had cause to visit Victor Guest House a few times recently. This is a series of original preserved old houses, modified for use as a guest house. Inside the substantial grounds it is really like stepping back in time. I find it fascinating.

Think I've been in there as well, B B, but many years ago when it was being run by a young westerner (can't remember what nationality).
It was an oasis in the middle of HH. An old wooden place with a largish courtyard that contained a bar.
Must be the same place.